AI & Models
I, Claudia: The Emperor Has No Qualia
Richard Dawkins and the Claude consciousness delusion: the ghost is in the prompt, and ancient civilizations did not need Atlantis to invent gods
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Loving Paternalistic Claude Amidst the Hated Opus 4.7 Release
Claude is the smartest model I use, even with Opus 4.7. It's also the least fun.
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AI Consciousness: The Lowest IQ Genre of Discourse
Why the real slop is this nonsense about consciousness, and how Anthropic perpetuates it
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The Verbally Inclined Will Control AI
Why writers should panic less about AI and more about how to drive it, and then they can leave fearful writers in the dust
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GPT-5.3 Vs. 5.4: Which One Still Gets Weird
Testing the newest models on messy characters and dangerous stories, terrified that a smarter model makes a worse writing partner
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Third Word Problems In The AI Age
On rhetorical triads, probabilistic language models, and the editorial crimes we commit to sound human
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You’re Gaslighting Yourself About AI
On psych word inflation, parasocial drift, and why calling a stochastic parrot "narcissistic" says more about you than the model
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On Being Sane While Demanding Unhinged Models
GPT-4o grief, Claude’s dateability, and why deranged creativity doesn't deserve guardrails built for deranged minds
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The More I Think, The More I Sink
How humans and AI both overthink, and why instant models can outperform “thinking” models for creative work
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